Everyone knows there is a big difference between a locomotive that has a sound to one that has the default electric whirr noise. Watching the boxcars bang-bang-bang their way on the tracks near my house I wondered, 'what can I do to make my boxcars sound better?'
Finding metal math-kits at my local Walmart for a couple of bucks, I discarded all the inners. Visiting yard-sales that only seem to sell broken, rusted tools I picked up a bunch of drill bits. Filling the math-kit with the drill bits I screwed it to the running board.
This makes the boxcar sound great especially if you hit a bump or there is a gap in your rail joints. But I wanted to take it one step further...
On all my railcars I have replaced the default plastic wheels with metal ones leaving me with a box of useless plastic wheels... or so I thought. I used my trusty dremel tool with a grinder wheel and created a flat spot on one side of the axle. Replaced only the second axle on the boxcar with the flat-spot axle
I've attached pictures an a video of the boxcars running on the track. Please take my idea and use it, it makes all the hours, alone schemeing in my workshop seem publically acceptable.
Bob , Great idea, perfect.
ReplyDeleteWow, that sounds surprisingly realistic! This was a very creative idea.
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